Michael Brunner

Quoted from Pack of Lies programme notes wherein he played the role of Peter in 19**: 'Michael began his career in 1952 at St. Andrew's College playing Laertes in Hamlet. He then went on to play the leads in Rope Enough, The Four Winds and the The Black Sheep of the Family in reportory. From 1954-64 Michael gave up the theatre and became a farmer, but in 1965 gave up the smell of hay for the smell of greasepaint and land's loss has been the theatre's gain ever since. Such diverse productions as Rollo, Come Back Little Sheba, LIfe with Father, and Fiddler on the Roof have won Michael best actor of the year award in Port Elizabeth four times. Other credits include Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Maynardville (1987), Children of a Lesser God at the Market Theatre, PACOF's Arms and the Man, Buried Inside Extra, PACT's Vereeniging, Vereeniging in Afrikaans, The Man Who Came To Dinner and Captain Orton in The King and I at the Civic Theatre. His most recent production for Shirley Firth Productions was Brighton Beach Memoirs. His film and TV credits range from Two Weeks in Paradise, Deadly Consequence and Vyfster to playing the role of Taffy Williams in the series 1922.'